A. Mystery plays involve Christian themes, whereas morality plays do not.
B. Morality plays involve Christian themes, whereas mystery plays do not.
C. Morality plays were written individually, whereas mystery plays are in cycles.
D. Mystery plays were written individually, whereas morality plays are in cycles.
Related Mcqs:
- What is one reason that Mystery Plays are referred to as such ?
A. They involve the solving of a crime.
B. They explore mysterious religious topics.
C. They were written by medieval mystics.
D. They were produced by medieval craft guilds, which were knows as “mysteries”. - In whose reign Morality plays began ?
A. Henry five
B. Elizabeth one
C. Henry six
D. Henry eight - In “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays”, what does William Hazlitt mean when he states the following: “We do not like to see our author’s plays acted, and least of all, ’Hamlet’. There is no play that suffers so much in being transferred to the stage” ?
A. Hamlet cannot be staged properly because of the complexity of the play’s use of language.
B. Hamlet is not relevant to the Romantic age.
C. The role of Hamlet cannot be properly played by any actor.
D. Hamlet is a work that was written to be read, not performed. - Which of the following is the best example of a mystery play ?
A. “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”
B. “The Second Shepherds’ Play”
C. “The Knight’s Tale”
D. “The Dream of the Rood” - What concept best distinguishes the difference between the time of the Middles Ages and the Renaissance ?
A. Humanism
B. The rise of Queen Elizabeth
C. The popularity of theater
D. The life of Shakespeare - According to Dr. Mazzotta, what trait distinguishes Dante’s purgatory from his hell ?
A. Purgatory is less future-oriented.
B. Purgatory is a place of redemptive intervention.
C. Purgatory includes references to time.
D. Purgatory is less rooted in the human, natural world. - For many scholars, what distinguishes terror from horror in the Gothic novel ?
A. The anticipation of the violation of one’s person versus an act of physical violence
B. Plotted revenge versus random violence
C. The male Gothic versus the female Gothic
D. The persistence of the past in the present versus the betrayal in the present of the paternal protector - Which of the following is the best example of a morality play ?
A. “The Seafarer”
B. “Everyman”
C. “The Second Shepherds’ Play”
D. “The Dream of the Rood” - “ A man can die but once” is one of quote of following plays ?
A. Henry 6 part three
B. Henry 4 part two
C. Henry 6 part one
D. Henry 4 part one - How many from his plays were published in his lifetime?
A. Only sixteen
B. Only seventeen
C. Only eighteen
D. Only nineteen
